who's going to change their work routine so they go from being an accountant to a lumberjack? that's not going to happen. they say, well, you know, bike to work, or walk to the store. and the one thing that book if forgets to ask or forgets to mention is that in half of america you can't bike to work and you certainly can't walk to the store because you live off of a highway that the store is off of, right? so it's fundamentally how we bill our communities in the long run, but in the short run it's about where you choose to live, and that's a choice you can make. and that's nowhere more obvious than the other big discussion, which is car crashes. car crashes are funny because on the one hand we naturalize it, we're like, oh, that's just a part of living. there's a 1 in 200 chance that i'll die in a car crash. nothing i can do about it. or alternately, we feel like we're in charge of our fate on the road, you know? we're good drivers, we can avoid the accidents. 85% of people who are recovering from an accidents that they themselves caused rated themselves good drivers. so all